I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
To be silent is to be passive.
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
No one nor anything can silence me.
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.
I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.